Today In Cold War History
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 : Emmett Till, a black fourteen year old teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Miss. after he was accused of disrespect to a local store owner Carolyn Bryant. He was found three days later, he had been badly beaten and his eye had been gouged out, before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River.
1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
1963 – Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights.
1963 – The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 : At the democratic convention in Chicago 10’s of thousands of Anti-Vietnam war protesters battle police in the streets. The mayor of Chicago Richard Daley calls in 15,000 state and federal officers together with Chicago 12,000 officers to control the streets. As the situation worsened Television Cameras were on hand as Police used tear gas and were beating the protesters including innocent newsmen and doctors who had come to aid the injured . The backlash from these happenings shown on news programmes throughout the country caused a swell of the ordinary American to question what America was doing in Vietnam if that was how they treated their own citizens.
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels.
1985 : An East German couple ( Reinhard and Sonja Schulze ) have appeared before Horseferry Road magistrates court in London charged under the Official Secrets Act.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.